THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 September 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

fKI.K<:TKIC TKLKi,! Al'U — COPYttJQHT. I ._i... iuiai .tocujCiiUufi-1 RUSSIAN SUCCESS. l'etrograd, bopi.. l/. A communique says:— Wo tools. ;jtisoner 40,UU0 Austro-Germans since oUtli August. 'iho German pressure continues in the Piksten, Sunken Lakes district, and Rakiszki, and westward of Jacobsfadt Dvinsii line. We repulsed repeated attacks in t'odbrodzo district, which were especially intense to tho westward. There was determined, lighting westward of Slouim The enemy's cavalry fell back near the' confluence of the Turija and the Pripet. \\'e crossed the Uoryii Derajuo district and progressed, in the lighting we captured a whole Austrian battalion We stopped the enemy's offensive in 13cravno and Klevau districts with a vigeaous eouiiter-scroJ\o, and then ad—vanced in the district westward of Klevan, taking prisoner 1300. \\e ejected tne enemy with great losses from the villages ot Rydomel and Rmstoki, westward of nysznevoy, and took prisoner 'upwards ot 2000. Our offensive was continued in Gontov and Ditkovey, south-westward ot Wysznevey, and we captured 1-10 > fficers, 7300 men and one heavy and six light guns, also much booty. Wo are piusuing tne enemy westward of Seretli front. There were fierce actions westward of Tarnopol on the 12th, and wo took prisoner 33 officers and men. ■ he Times's Petrograd correspondent says tho seizure of a portion of the railway line at Svieiioiany~was the result ot a cavalry raid, not of a general advance. THE WEST FRONT. Paris, Sept. 14. Official.— Artillery actions continue Our batteries at liois de Mont mare silenced tho enemy's machine guns and made effective practice on certain salients in the German lines. AUSTIUAN GUNS SILENCED Home, Sept. 14. A communique says:—the Austrians attempted a resolute attack in tho Plezzo basin using asphyxiating gases and inflammable liquids at Danazilez and bombarded the Carte positions, but their guns were silenced. FROM THE ENEMY Constantinople, Sept. i-i A communique says:—Our artillery successfully shelled an enemy regiment at Anafarta camps at Saelstaki and dispersed enemy manoeuvring at Seddulbahr. "We repelled a cruiser and tor pedo boats approaching the coast, Amsterdam, .Sept. Au Austrian communique says:— We repulsed an attack on Strypa trout. The Russians at Volhynia with rem- i forcements attacks numerous points, hut were repulsed with great losses ; near Dubno-Stubipl sector. Our troops in Lithuania pursued the enemy across Grinda plain, southward. A Turkish communique says:—On the night of the 12th-13bh our reconnoitring columns surprised . the enemy trenches at several point's in Anafarta and Ariburnu districts.